Some recent listener feedback

Hello Bruce.
Thank you for the pedagogical way of showing how to use the Adobe Audition 3 and making me so interested.
All the best
Kasper
Actually, Adobe and Lynda are the ones that should be thanking you.
I purchased both Audition and a subscription to Lynda based solely on what I'm hearing on your excellent programs.
And I hate the word podcasts.
It lumps you in with all the a**holes that think they are content producers because they have a microphone and an internet connection (and you are obviously a professional dedicated to his craft, and know how to produce content).
They just don't know what they don't know!
Scott Hess
I'm a long time listener to your Building the Pod and Sine Language shows, and would like to thank you for producing such informative and interesting podcasts.
I'm a media production student at the University of Lincoln in the UK and your Audition guides really helped me during the radio production aspect of my course.
Paul Hennell
I've only recently decided to get back into music production after a prolonged absence.
So, when it came to choosing a DAW, it came down to a choice between FL Studio and Audition.
Dollar wise, quite similar although FL Studio does offer more in the way of virtual instruments for this price range.
But I chose Audition for two clear reasons.
1. I really like the look and feel. The layout is just easy on the eye and made sense to me very quickly.
2. I knew I had a great teacher. I discovered Building the Pod through the Adobe web site and soon found Sine Language.
I have to thank you sincerely for your weekly tuition.
It has turned a somewhat severe learning curve into managable bite size pieces.
I simply can't overstate how thankful I am of your weekly podcasts.
Bye for now.
Ross Huntley
Oh thank you god a podcast showing you how to properly make podcasts. Thank you Bruce Williams!
Matt

May 25, 2008

Who misses out this week?

Filed under: Building the Pod,Shutters Inc — Bruce Williams @ 12:01

Unfortunately, both Building the Pod and Shutters Inc.
Again, my apologies.
I will do my best to get BTP done for next week.
And Shutters Inc fans, I can tell you that Shelton and I have spoken, and are aiming to get an episode recorded Tuesday or Wednesday night this coming week, so, fingers crossed, you guys will be in luck next week, too!
Of course having said that, I started rebuilding my 2 PC’s last night (Sunday), and at the moment, I don’t have a machine that’s in a record-ready state!
Looks like I’m going to be busy when I get home from work tonight.
Watch this space.

May 18, 2008

3 strikes…

Filed under: Building the Pod,Shutters Inc,Sine Language — Bruce Williams @ 21:18

What can I tell ya?
It’s just been a full-on week yet again, and I have not had a chance to record ANY of my podcasts.
Two things stood in my way this past week.
1. I was recording yet another title for Lynda.com in the evenings, and
2. A cousin of mine from Perth (Western Australia) whom I hadn’t seen for 2.5 years flew into town on business and stayed with us for 4 nights. It was great to see him again.
And podcasting came a very tragic 3rd in that race, I’m sorry!
Let’s put this in perspective, shall we?
You all know how much of a geek I am, right?
Well, get this…
Sitting behind me, on the floor of my studio/office, is a cardboard box.
In that cardboard box is sitting an Asus motherboard, an AMD Phenom quad-core CPU, 2GB of RAM, and an Asus Lightscribe DVD writer.
Those components are waiting to become my next PC upgrade.
You know how long they’ve been sitting in that box on my floor?
TWO WEEKS!!
Two freakin’ weeks, people!
So, now you KNOW I’m not just yankin’ your chain about being busy.
If Bruce can’t find time to upgrade his PC, things must be outta control.
Believe me, I’m tryin’…

May 11, 2008

Building the pod – episode 120

Filed under: !Podcasts,Building the Pod,CD audio extract,CoolLame,MP3,Quantization error,Rarewares,auto phase correction — Bruce Williams @ 20:02

And you thought it would never happen, right?
At last, BTP is back.
This week, a couple of e-mails to answer.
Jim Weishorn asked about the introduction of quantization errors from too much processing.
And Mike Wills asked about encoding your mp3′s from inside Audition, but using Lame instead of the Fraunhofer codec.
Which led to a discussion of the CoolLame filter, available from Rarewares.
Then, a look at the extended capabilities of the Extract Audio From CD tool in Audition v3 (which now has the ability to retrieve album metadata from an internet database so you can rip and tag your CD’s!).
As you’ll hear though, going forward from here, it’s going to be tough for me to maintain 3 weekly podcasts. Time will tell just what I am able to deliver.

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May 4, 2008

BTP misses out again!

Filed under: Building the Pod — Bruce Williams @ 21:45

I  am truly sorry gang, I really am.
I got back into Sydney at 6am last Monday morning, I laid low that day, spent Tuesday with Cath (seeing as how I wasn’t here on Sunday for our wedding anniversary), and then Wednesday, I was back at MIX106.5 where it would appear I will be indefinitely.
Check out the last 3 minutes of this week’s Sine Language (ep 87) for more detail.